From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1vbnq6rmgp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <807g0ucb2p.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411511965 22333 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2014 22:39:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Berry , EMACS devel list , Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab , pertusus@free.fr To: Vincent =?utf-8?Q?Bela=C3=AFche?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 00:39:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjp-0006ox-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjp-0000AC-FT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjm-00009p-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjl-0002xM-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjl-0002vf-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWYjf-0006cF-3U; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:39:03 -0400 X-Spook: Abbas munitions TWA Al-Qaeda Verisign Consul blackjack X-Ran: "nd#z&=}O|~?Cypsx9F=fBl0QVp\yWE\/{2t\{Wg9Z5?nyBQM%hV2o_rv$d;9fk+gw+u#& X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <807g0ucb2p.fsf@gmail.com> ("Vincent =?utf-8?Q?Bela=C3=AFche?= =?utf-8?Q?=22's?= message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:54:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174679 Archived-At: Vincent Bela=C3=AFche wrote: > BTW, when I did the patch I initially thought that my problem was with > using a fake makeinfo that is indeed a skin of texi2any. Please take a step back and tell us clearly what problem you think you are trying to solve. I've missed that, and so far this is making no sense to me. > But it came out that this was not the only issue. Current configure.ac > uses that sort of wildcard: > > [[7-9]] > > with [...] encapsulation around `[7-9]'. This does not work for me and I > did not found any such thing in the manual: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#pattern-matching > > so I removed also that encapsulation as in the attached patch. The double [[]] is necessary for autoconf, which is why you don't find it in the bash manual. Removing it makes no sense.